It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I expected something like "The Lives of Others", found the topic fascinating. There are several problems with this movie however. First is the lacking historical realism. "Kamila" is a name that only got popular in Poland in the last years. The protagonists speak very contemporary Polish. The way Kamila dresses doesn't come from the 1960s. The authors clearly had access to historical images and it's strange they didn't base on them.The second problem is the main heroin. She's too pretty and she's pretty in a very contemporary way. She doesn't look or behave as women did back then. Also the actress' acting is simply horrible, she didn't manage to portray the doubts and psychological struggles of a woman that leads a double life.The film has too much pathos in it. In the main original story the movie was based on the writer died of cancer. In the movie, he's beaten up and then probably murdered. It's as if the authors were trying hard to make the story even more dramatic than it was. The result is over the top, hardly watchable.Then there are problems with the script, which is just too obvious, doesn't show any psychological dilemma. Characters aren't realistic, were written just to represent specific attitudes towards the Communist Poland. Seweryn's and most other actors' acting was really good, but the movie doesn't deserve more than 3-4 stars.